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P-D: Father of Wentzville Marine killed in Afghanistan will air concerns in Congress (get around stltoday paywall here)

KTVO (Kirksville): U.S. Rep. Sam Graves meets with Macon County officials to discuss traffic, infrastructure needs

KC Star: Missouri man dressed in Revolutionary War costume during Capitol riot gets jail time (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics column by Scott Faughn: Missouri Supreme Court selection process; Andrew Bailey, Will Scharf and the testicular fortitude of Aaron Willard; State Fair roundup; how Gov. Parson stacks up vs. GOP presidential field

KC Star’s Jonathan Shorman: Introducing the Star’s new “Broken Government” project exposing the failings of Missouri and Kansas government; tell the Star which officials you want them to go after next (to avoid KC Star paywall, paste link above into “Incognito” or “Private” browser window, then click ESC or “X” to stop loading the page before paywall popup appears)

KC Star’s Jonathan Shorman: Broken Government pilot piece: Why embezzlement keeps hurting Missouri, Kansas small towns; future pieces will expose “the problematic use of no-bid contracts and failures in statewide water policy” (to avoid KC Star paywall, paste link above into “Incognito” or “Private” browser window, then click ESC or “X” to stop loading the page before paywall popup appears)

Columbia Missourian: Protections for girls’ sports, other laws take effect Monday

SNL: Under waiver, 20 MO school districts to use alternative to state tests

JCNT: Educator work group floats standards for teaching students social-emotional skills

SNL: Missouri becomes 49th state to ban all-age texting and driving

JCNT: Domestic violence cases tripled in Missouri during pandemic

SNL: ‘The Price Is Right’ host Bob Barker dies; Drury graduate was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians in 2007

KSMU: “Free expression” activist group PEN America says Missouri leads U.S. in number of ‘educational intimidation’ bills; thoughts from Sen. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville)

P-D: Death row inmate sues Missouri governor, attorney general over innocence claims (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D editorial: On abortion, “Never mind what the people want” is the GOP’s position in Missouri (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star editorial: Kansas City businesses are way behind St. Louis in college name, image and likeness (NIL) promotions (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

JCNT editorial: “Soft skills” standards might be right approach for Missouri schools

Southeast Missourian op-ed: U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt: No matter how this administration tries to spin it, ‘Bidenomics’ is not working (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)

The Missouri Times op-ed: Chandler Haynes: Conservative leaders in D.C. should join Schmitt and Burlison in protecting patients, families, taxpayers and businesses from a nationalized health care system

Columbia Missourian’s David Webber: Jay Nixon, Jack Danforth know the current political party system is not meeting American voters needs

P-D letter: Webster Groves sexagenarian says he wrote complaint letters to Hawley and Schmitt and still hasn’t heard back (get around stltoday paywall here)

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P-D letter: Septuagenarian man, who chooses to live in Illinois, attempts “Marxist” punchline involving Hawley, Schmitt and abortion (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D letter: Mehlville man says Post-Dispatch’s bias ignores populist benefit of abortion vote (get around stltoday paywall here)

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